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REELING MACHINE. y APPLIOATION FILED 0UT.31, 1907.

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H. HIGH.'- REELING MAUHINE. APPLICATION FILED 0013.31, 1907.

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HENRY HIGH, OF BOON'ION, NEW JERSEY.

REELING-MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 29, 1908.

Application led. October 31, 1907. Serial No. 400,087.

To all whom #may concern: n e

Be it known that I, HENRY HIGH, a citie Zen of the United States, residing in Boonton, Morris county, New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Reeling-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to machines for reeling silk and the like and it has reference par ticularly to the mounting of the reels in such machines and the mechanism for transinitting the power to the reels whereby to rotate the same. The reels of such machines are arranged at present with their shafts resting in open bearings so that they maybe easily removed from the machine to be conveyed to the steaming room and to allow taking off the reeled skeins. The shaft of the reel carries a part of its driving-train, usually a gear, and in Vconsequence the shaft has such length that the reel cannot be made to stand endwise on the floor with stability, because the shaft projects materially beyond the end of the reelbars which directly support the skeins; the reel, when removed from the machine, is therefore usually made to rest against some such convenient support as a nearby machine, with the result that the silk is often soiled or abraded thereby. In addition,y more or less diflicult loss of time and inconvenience are regularly met with by the attendant in removing the reel from and replacing it in the machine, owing to the fact that one member of the driving-train is carried Vby the reelshaft and has to be considered in order to secure its proper engagement with its mating member and its clearing other parts of the machine during these operations and in order to prevent oil and grease thereof from dropping onto the silk.

My present invention, which has for its object to avoid these several difficulties, may be bestunderstood on reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein,

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of a reeling machine constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the essential parts of the invention; and, Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are detail views, Eig. 3 being a vertical sectional view of parts shown in Fig. 2 in a plane coincident with the axis of the reel shaft, Fig. 4 being a left-hand face view of the bracket, andlfig. 5 being a side view of the left end of said shaft.

In said drawings, a and b respectively designate one end and one intermediate standard of a reeling machine, c indicates the reels and d the corresponding parts of the driving-trains for said reels journaled each in one of the standards aforesaid. As usually constructed, the shaft c of the reel is made longer than its skein-supporting bars f because its end-portion carries one of the parts of the driving-train and in order to bring said part into meshing alinement with the part d of the driving-train it must stand in a plane clear of the ends of said bars. In the resent case, the shaft c is short enough so t at at each end it is in substantially the same plane as the ends of the bars f and it is supported and adapted to be driven in the following manner: Each of the intermediate standards has bolted to it a bracket g comprising a plate h thickened-up at i and an upwardly open bearing y' projecting 'from its thickened-up ortion; when bolted in position the plateies squarely against one face of the standard and said bearing projects through a recess formed in the top of the standard as shown at 7c in the dotted outline of the standard in Eig. 4. A hole or bore l is formed in the thickened-up portion i, the same being preferably flush at the bottom thereof with the bottom of the bearing 7'. In the'bore is arranged a stub-shaft m which is secured therein by the set-screw n with the end thereof referably flush with the face of the thi tened-up portion which adjoins the bearing. Said stub-shaft has an annular groove o cut in its projecting portion. On the projecting portion of the stubshaft, in mesh with gear d, is journaled a gear p having a screw g tapped into its hub r in such manner as to enter the groove in the stub-shaft and thus keep the gear on the shaft While allowing its free rotation. The hub r of the gear p has approximately onehalf of its end portion removed, as at s, so that the socket t formed by said bore is open on one side back to a point slightly short of the end of the shaft; in order to facilitate the end of the shaft e being introduced into said bore-shaped socket t in the manner to be described, the socket has its mouth portion lu, slightly conical 0r iiaring. The hub of the gear p is further provided with a recess o With which a radial pin w on shaft c is l tages above alluded to.

adapted to engage when the shaft is introduced into said socket t to interlock the shaft and gear for rotation together.

It will be understood that brackets for supporting the shafts in the end-standards will be substantially like that above described in detail except that that for the left-hand end standard will be cast Without the portion to the left of the line AMA, and that for the right-hand end standard cast Without the portion to the right of the line B-B, in TEig. 2.

In the operation of a machine like that to Which my invention applies the reels always stop for the purpose of their removal with the same side up, thus in the present case, the gear p is so arranged With reference to the gear d that in its position of rest the open side of its socket t Will be up. ln order to place the reel in its bearings, the end of the shaft e having the pin w is introduced into the socket t With the pin projecting up until its end abuts against the end of the stubshaft, its pin being caused to enter the recess o; the reel being at this time slightly tilted, its other end is now lowered until it rests in the bearing of the bracket on the adjoining standard, This Will bring both ends of the shaft e substantially in contact With the ends of the two stub-shafts m so that it will be held against endwise'moverne1it. In order to remove the reel these steps are simply reversed. The reel being in position, upon gear 'p being caused to rotate the reel rotates With it because of the interlocking engagement between them afforded by their recessand-pin connection 3 and since one end of the reel shaft is extended into the socket beyond its open portion s and is held there by abutting at the other end against the stub-shaft m, the reel shaft is prevented from falling from socket t.

In vieW of the foregoing, it will be apparent that l provide, in a simple manner, for

supporting and effecting the driving of the reel shaft Withoutv mounting any part of the driving train on said shaft, involving as that arrangement does all the various disadvan- The rcel is capable of being set in and removed from its supporting means Without dii'liculty and without interfering with other parts of the machine, and is furthermore capable of standing end- Wise unsup orted.

Having t ius fully described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination of a rotatable driving part, a shaft to be driven thereby, one of said parts having an axial socket receiving the other and open for a part of its depth on one side only, means for interlocking said parts for rotation together when the one is received by the other, and an open bearing for the free end of the shaft, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a rotatable driving part, a shaft to be driven thereby, one of said parts having an axial socket receiving the other and open for a part of its depth on one side only, a recess-and-pin connection for interlocking said parts for rotation together when the one is received by the other, and an open bearing for the free end ol the shaft, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with two standards, of a bracket carried by each standard, a shaft, one of said brackets comprising an open bearing for one end of the shaft, a stubshaft arranged in the other bracket and 'lixcd therein against endwisc movement, a gear journaled on the stub-shaft and having its hub projecting beyond the end of the stilbshaft, the one side of said hub being open at one side only back toward but not to the end of the stub-shaft, said first-named shaft being arranged with one end in said bearing and With its other end in said hub, and means for interlocking the gear andy said iirst-naincd shaft for rotation together, substantially as described.

ln testimony, that l claim the foregoing, l have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of October 1907.

HENRY HIGH.

Witnesses:

VWM. D. BELL, JoriN W. Sinwiinn.

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